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I have always enjoyed baseball, and I like looking up players’ statistics. While exploring stats, I learned that the barrel metric is very important because a barrel is defined as a batted ball that typically produces at least a .500 batting average and a 1.500 slugging percentage based on its exit velocity and launch angle. Now it is the offseason, I think the barrel metric would also play an important role in evaluating hitters. Instead of looking only at barrel percentage,

In baseball, various batting metrics are used to evaluate hitters. Basic ones include batting average, slugging percentage, and BB/K ratio. There is also a metric called wRC+, which reflects a hitter’s pure offensive ability. If the hitter has high scores on these metrics, then the hitter will be evaluated as a good player.    However, to evaluate a hitter’s real ability in a clutch situation, we have to look at the hitter’s WPA(Win Probability Added). WPA quantifies the effe